Marie Lloyd

NJ said one of the greatest influences on her after her mother was the actress Gladys ffolliott . Her friends in the music-hall and the theatre included a roster of distinguished and less distinguished...

Music was very important to EBO (though she says she had inexplicably little talent), and she gives one of the five books of her memoirs to her musical life. She heard Edvard Grieg conducting his...

NJ was a highly prolific, popular author, whose profitable writing career began in the 1920s and produced more than seventy books. The greater number are novels, including a notable series detailing for fortunes of an...

The book that NJ 's biographer Paul Bailey considers the most durable of her works, a life of the music-hall performer Marie Lloyd , Our Marie, was advertised as forthcoming on this day.

The Overture (which envisages the coming book as the performance of a play) asks, Why should I try to remember anything but the good things? Thus NJ describes her native Yorkshire and her mother's...